From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 14 12:10:09 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JlU49-0006By-HH for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:09 -0700 Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net ([68.230.240.7]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JlU43-00069d-SX for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:09 -0700 Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080414190950.FUWX880.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:09:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([72.192.234.183]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id DX9u1Z0053y5FKc02X9uuM; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4803ABFF.3000604@lojban.org> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:09:51 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Russian etymology of Lojban References: <20080313194839.GB9672@grendel.dealloc.org> <47D9BE15.5040405@lojban.org> <20080407185020.GK9672@grendel.dealloc.org> <20080407194918.GL9672@grendel.dealloc.org> <4c4e58c10804080733m7cc6b71fgfff16c6e2df634ba@mail.gmail.com> <20080411170202.GM9672@grendel.dealloc.org> <480124D0.4050204@lojban.org> <20080414161255.GN9672@grendel.dealloc.org> <480390A9.70102@lojban.org> <925d17560804141118j28e62d87m216bd7f661c85f41@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560804141118j28e62d87m216bd7f661c85f41@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14360 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: lojbab@lojban.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Jorge Llambías wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Bob LeChevalier wrote: > > >>I spotted this one. Here is the full etymology (which includes words that >>were run but yielded a lesser score) >> >>vulva i20a >>Chinese wai\yin- (uaiiin) >>English vulva (valva) pudend-um (piudend) cunt (kant) >>Hindi bhag (bag) cut (cut) >>Spanish vulva (vulva) cun~o (kuno) > > "coño" > >>From the orginal etymology sheet: >>Note: "This is a good concept but hard to look up because many lang's with >>masc/fem endings simply have a root that implies this and the ending >>specifies whether you mean "brother" or "sister". e.f. S. hermos-a; > > "hermana" The note was probably by Tommy Whitlock, who didn't do the Spanish. Since Nora ended up finding a different word, this error turns out not to matter. Probably he got it confused by the neighboring street name here, which is Hermosa. But you clearly show the limitations of our word-making work. lojbab To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.